MR. TITO: Wrestling Fans Attacking Tessa Blanchard Need to Look in the Mirror
If you want to boo Tessa Blanchard at a professional wrestling event, that’s 100% fine. But these “you’re a racist” chants are ridiculous and are more of an indictment of the wrestling fans screaming it at TNA events or typing bullcrap online. Why? Because Tessa paid the price for what allegedly happened and even after apologizing to and making amends with La Rosa Negra for something that happened in Japan during 2017. Sadly, there are “high and mighty” wrestling fans who are still trying to hold her accountable EVEN AFTER she lost FOUR YEARS of her peak wrestling abilities from being blacklisted by the wrestling business.
This happened during 2017… So if you did simple Mathematics with her being born in 1995, she was 22 years old when she allegedly spat on and called La Rosa Negra a racial slur.
22 years old.
For anyone reading this, were you 100% perfect as a 22 year old or anything in your 20s? Those are the years where you’re still immature, as science has proven that most adults take up to their 26th year for their brains to fully become matured.
And if you’re a wrestling fan in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, I guarantee that you said certain BAD things in your youth that were considered “acceptable” 25 years ago that are immediately silenced now. For example, anyone or anything that you considered stupid, you’d call that person a “retard” or call a situation “retarded”. To taunt any fellow male back then, you’d mock them by accusing them of being a homosexual by calling them a “homo”, “c***sucker”, or what’s really considered a slur up there with other racial slurs, “f****t”. You can fill in the blanks for these ignorant playground taunts that happened, but were also inserted into 1990s and early 2000s music back then. Go listen to Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP album, which is a bi-product of that era and wasn’t just him speaking like that through the year 2000.
And if you’re in your 60s or above, you’re right in that era where black people had to use separate facilities, schools, drinking fountains, and all of that Jim Crow BS that insulted and held back an entire demographic of people. That “separate but equal” BS, which I believe is the genesis of Hulk Hogan’s slurs about black men dating his daughter as heard from the sex tape. He grew up during the 1950s and 1960s, and that way of thinking is ingrained within the Hulkster.
And for those in their 20s or below… I SEE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS and YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ME. Full of hatred, as you nitpick and attack every thing that you see. The stuff that you circulated in High School, whether they were photos of other kids or rumors about other kids, were far more disturbing and disgusting than any face-to-face taunts. Lots of suicides have been happening because of how kids are digitally bullied during their teenage years. YOU ARE MONSTERS with the way you utilize Social Media to attack people from a long distance away.
FINGER OF SHAME to you, HYPOCRITES, for constantly trying to judge someone without looking in the mirror yourself.
What’s that phrase?
Those who throw stones live in glass houses.
Yes, that’s the one.
Look, I 100% DO NOT condone Tessa Blanchard for what she allegedly did in Japan during 2017. Spitting on another human being is degrading, along with firing off a racial slur. She was 22 when that allegedly happened, but she was around 25 when that story, along with others of her bullying people backstage, came out during 2020.
Again, as I ask the audience, were you perfect at 25 years old, let alone 22 years of age?
And how long should she be punished for her deeds?
Honest question, how long should she be punished for things she was accused of doing? Nothing has ever been caught on film or recordings, unlike Hulk Hogan whose racial slurs were caught on video and audio of him saying the N-word repeatedly. He was cancelled for 2 years before being able to resume making money again with the wrestling business. Tessa Blanchard was disallowed continued employment from TNA (who essentially let her go during 2020), both WWE and AEW denied her, and Tessa couldn’t find work with any smaller United States promotions.
4 years…
How about this? I’ll dig up negative Tweets or root around in your past to see if you said or did anything questionable or derogatory. Then, you’ll have to take 4 years off from your chosen field or profession. Sound like a deal? Do you think that you’re willing to struggle financially to make ends meet for 4 years of being denied employment everywhere?
The last 2 presidents that we’ve had have a history of saying or doing questionable things, even about race… Yet, both Joe Biden and Donald Trump were allowed to become President of the United States by winning the majority of the votes. If that’s not a standard of saying something and then being allowed to move on, then I don’t know what your crooked standards are.
But keep trying to let a good in-ring talent be blacklisted from the business. You’ll be denying yourself GOOD wrestling that could happen if you just give her another chance.
Folks, everyone should be allowed to evolve, especially if they said or did something in their teenage years or 20s. Obviously, if they committed a heinous crime like murder or assault, that’s different… But when it’s JUST WORDS, someone should be given the chance to evolve and then prove that they’ve evolved. Then, if said person messes up again, just let them go.
We live in a time, thanks to the last 20 years, where someone is completely cancelled if they do one small thing that is inconsequential to your lives. The Dixie Chicks (now self-censoring themselves as just “The Chicks”, thanks to the shaming of 2020) were censored during 2003 for simply saying at an England venue that they were “ashamed” that George W. Bush was from their home state of Texas in response the War in Iraq starting up. What happened? Irate fans destroyed their albums and Country Stations completely censored their music, literally never playing them to this very day. For what? Words and for using the 1st Amendment.
Yeah, as it turns out, the War in Iraq was a quite a mess for the United States and I’m pretty sure no links to 9/11 or “weapons of mass destruction” were ever found. Sure, Saddam was a bad individual, but we went into Iraq as a response to the tragic events of 9/11. The Dixie Chicks paid a severe price, as they had death threats and being shunned by the Country Music industry crushed any monetary opportunities for them.
BUT, thanks to the over-reaction to someone using their 1st Amendment rights, we were literally denied 15 years of 3 highly talented musicians pumping out great music. Not only that, it turned their love for making music sour and they haven’t been the same since.
How about Janet Jackson? She literally did nothing wrong, as a stunt during the Super Bowl halftime show following the 2004 season went wrong and her nipple was exposed on live television. Now, most of the Super Bowl audience was of adult age and had already succeeded in having sexual relations with someone. That, and along with seeing a Playboy magazine, watching adult films on DVD/VHS, or seeing it on the growing internet, it’s quite bizarre how prudish people were during early 2005. Yet, the brief 2-3 seconds that you could see her nipple created a firestorm for Janet Jackson who was completely censored from radio stations and that vile Viacom CEO Les Moonves, who would see karma later with his own alleged sexual harassment issues, censored Janet anywhere he could.
In doing so, censoring Janet was denied YEARS of her promoting any of her newer music, as she’s an incredible female talent who didn’t get credit for being one of the legit best artists out there.
How about in response to 9/11 when Clear Channel did targeted censorship of any artists who remotely had aggressive lyrics? Yeah, lots of rock and metal bands were blacklisted from ever being played on the radio again and that harmed careers. Lots of great music was denied from ever getting airtime.
Do you see what cancellation and censorship, THANKS TO OVER-REACTION, can cause? You’re denying great art from being allowed to be consumed by the general public. The loud minority of individuals throwing stones from their glass houses are able to dictate what the majority of us would like to enjoy.
Tessa lost 4 peak years of her wrestling career due to being an immature a-hole during her early to mid 20s. Isn’t that enough pain, from her side, for what she did especially if she made amends with the person she slandered and spat at?
Sorry, folks, but this is BS… This “she’s a racist” stuff needs to go away UNLESS she obvious does it again.
And let me take this further… Don’t most religions preach FORGIVENESS? I could pull up random Holy Bible quotes if you’d like?
Matthew 6:14: “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
And there are many more quotes that I could pull from the Bible, let alone from other scriptures of other religions.
In summary, if it’s revealed that Tessa at age 29 about to be 30, is still spitting on and hurling racial slurs at black individuals or any other race, then I’ll 100% join you in throwing stones. BUT, if that past behavior hasn’t been repeated in the last 4 years and probably won’t with her return to TNA, then give her another damn chance.
Again, LOOK IN THE MIRROR… You’ve had transgressions yourself when you’ve treated someone unfairly or slandered them. Nobody is perfect, especially in their 20s. Hulk Hogan was around 50 when he said the N-word repeatedly on film and audio, yet he’s allowed to be given a second chance and hell, allowed to campaign for a future President of the United States (speaking at the Republican Convention, for God’s sakes!). You just boo him instead of chanting “he’s a racist”. Yet, you’ve chosen to target the younger female instead because she’s an easier target and you’re quietly MARKS for saying your prayers and taking your vitamins.
Give Tessa a chance to succeed… Like Hogan, just boo her and shove that “she’s a racist” taunts up your arses until she deserves it if and only if she slurs or spits at someone else. Mmmmmkay?
Everybody makes STUPID mistakes when they are younger… Its when they don’t learn from said mistake as they get older is when it becomes a concern. Tessa deserves a chance to prove herself, just as YOU deserve a chance to prove yourself if you ever messed up before. Lucky for you, you’re not a public figure that is held up to a massive standard.
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